It’s not precisely the Hollywood 2.0 Mark Wahlberg promised to remake Las Vegas into when he moved to city final August. Nevertheless it’s one thing. A film starring Wahlberg is at the moment filming for Apple TV on the Las Vegas Strip.
Mark Wahlberg addresses a member of the media on the Las Vegas opening of his household’s Wahlburgers restaurant chain in March 2017. Wahlberg, the newest A-lister to relocate to Sin Metropolis, is at the moment taking pictures a movie at Aria. (Picture: weblog.caesars.com)
For the previous week or so, “The Household Plan” has been taking pictures early within the mornings on the on line casino flooring at Aria.
Set to stream someday in 2024, The Household Plan is about, as per IMDB: “A suburban dad who should take his unsuspecting household on the run when his previous catches as much as him.”
Wahlberg is coproducing the motion comedy with Apple Authentic Movies and Skydance Media (Prime Gun: Maverick). Its director is Simon Cellan Jones, who additionally helmed Wahlberg within the upcoming Arthur the King.
A handful of films and TV reveals from the key Hollywood studios shoot scenes on the Las Vegas Strip yearly. Most achieve this in secrecy, nonetheless, since gathering gawkers are inclined to spoil the photographs.
Aria’s on line casino flooring has been revealed as a location taking pictures website for an upcoming Mark Wahlberg film. (Picture: Chris Holmes)
The Household Plan is not any exception. Its Las Vegas Strip filming location was solely revealed when Chris Holmes – the proprietor of Nevada Aerial Media and a daily on the Aria poker site – stumbled upon the set and tweeted a short video of his discovery on February 7.
The video didn’t present Wahlberg, nor has Holmes seen Wahlberg on website. Wahlberg and actress Michelle Monaghan (True Detective) are the movie’s stars.
Hollywood 2.0
Wahlberg relocated his household from Beverly Hills to Las Vegas final August, buying a $14.5M mansion and a vacant 2.5-acre plot within the Summit Membership, additionally residence to singer Celine Dion. Multiple of Wahlberg’s youngsters now reportedly attends Bishop Gorman Excessive Faculty, a $15K-a-year personal Catholic college.
Many Hollywood A-listers have referred to as Las Vegas residence over the a long time. Thus far, all have carried out so in relative quiet, relishing the break from TMZ cameras to boost households or take pleasure in retirement or semi-retirement in seclusion. However Wahlberg signaled a break from that custom.
As he informed the Lights, Digital camera, Vegas web discuss present final yr: “I reside in Nevada. I plan on making, hopefully, a movie studio … in Nevada. We need to create lots of jobs and lots of pleasure. Hollywood 2.0.”
Wahlberg, who owns a bit of the sneaker resale market, StockX, additionally talked about constructing a shoe manufacturing facility.
He and his brothers, Donnie and Paul, opened a Wahlburgers in 2017 on the Grand Bazaar Retailers at Bally’s (now the Horseshoe) on the Strip.
